McMinnville, OR – You may recall that last week Kay and I were sharing a rented beach house in Pacific City, OR, with Rhonda and Curt. After having all the beach fun I could stand, we headed home, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On November 2, 1947, Howard Hughes built and piloted the world's largest airplane, the 200-ton flying boat Spruce Goose, on its ...
The world's biggest ever flying boat is so massive that its wingspan is longer than some football pitches, but it only flew once. The Hughes H-4 Hercules (best known by its nickname, the Spruce Goose) ...
Yet word got out that Howard Hughes was building a new airplane, and the press dubbed it the “Hughes Mystery Ship”. Howard Hughes always referred to the aircraft as the Hughes 1B Special, but just as ...